Writer-director Martin Scorsese remains best known for classic films like Taxi Driver and critical darlings like Killers of the Flower Moon. However, he’s also addressed religious themes in movies like Silence and The Last Temptation of Christ.
Now, he’s set to host the Fox News Media docu-series Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, the media organization announced Wednesday.
Starting in November, Scorcese will appear on the streaming service Fox Nation to interview experts.
As a screenwriter, he’s become known for writing voice-over narration into his movies. In this upcoming series, he’ll narrate re-enactments of the lives of eight saints: Sebastian, Thomas Becket, Maximillian Kolbe, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, John the Baptist, Joan of Arc, and Francis of Assisi.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set,” Scorsese said in a press release.
“These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different periods of history and struggling to follow the way of love revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ words in the gospels. I’m so excited that this project is underway, and that I’m working with so many trusted and talented collaborators.”
Fox Nation has been poaching Hollywood A-listers like movie star Rob Lowe, Saturday Night Live legend Dan Akroyd, and more. Now, the company seems overjoyed about its partnership with the legendary director.
“It’s an honor to welcome the world-renowned Martin Scorsese to the FOX Nation platform,” Jason Klarman, Fox News Media chief marketing officer, said in a statement.
“Having the greatest storyteller tell some of the greatest stories of all time is exactly the kind of exclusive content that is driving FOX Nation’s success.”
Scorsese won an Oscar in 2006 for directing The Departed, but he’s not directing this series. Instead, the director will be Elizabeth Chomko.
Fox Nation, a streaming service, will release four episodes on Nov. 18 and hold the remaining four until May 2025. The streaming service has also reportedly obtained the rights to 2004’s The Passion of the Christ.
The series has attracted the attention of the film industry more broadly. “Well I definitely didn’t have Scorsese doing a show for Fox Nation on my bingo card,” HBO filmmaker Travon Free tweeted after Wednesday’s announcement.
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Well I definitely didn't have Scorsese doing a show for Fox Nation on my bingo card. pic.twitter.com/fFTn5Y4JEg
— Travon (@Travon) March 27, 2024
MARTIN SCORSESE talking very passionately about his new film Taxi Driver back in 1976. pic.twitter.com/UTOzTzPTsN
— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) March 26, 2024